Your friends and family have heard about the opportunity and their patience ran out some time ago. Grant Dunn built most of his best writing around that moment, and his answer is to acquire a skill rather than a bigger list of contacts.
The skill he keeps returning to is copywriting. He argues at length that compelling people in writing is the one ability that transfers to anything you ever sell, and that most people avoid learning it because it is slow. Around that sit posts on content marketing done as a theme rather than a scattering of articles, on value cycles, and on joining blogging communities so that your writing meets actual readers.
A very large number of the posts here are generic tips articles on forex, search optimisation, affiliate work and home business. They pad the count and you can skip almost all of them without loss.
Look for the long first person posts. He tells you when he is writing from experience, and those are the ones worth your evening.